At least 50 people were killed in Primorye due to hypothermia

Investigators are checking information about mass death of people in the Khabarovsk territory.

Since the beginning of winter from-for strong colds, which were held in the region for nearly two months, killed 49 people, and another 415 were injured. People got frostbite and pereohloždenie.

“20 Jan 2017 in the media and the Internet posted materials that from November 2016 to 17 January 2017 under the influence of low temperatures in the Khabarovsk region killed 49 people, – stated in the message. Investigative agencies of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the Khabarovsk Krai with the purpose of verification of this information is checked, which will install all the circumstances, including the accuracy of the information placed in mass media”.